'll treasure that. >> isaidashleyjuddisgoing to crush mitch mcconnell last night. all she has to do is announce. i want to call the race right now. i'm calling it for ashley judd. >> i'm not going to -- as the senior kentucky analyst, i have to maintain an open mind here. and i find that when you make predictions, people assume that you want a specific result. you're predicting. >> she's three points behind him in a poll. it's devastating. >> it is amazing. >> it is amazing. she's probably the first candidate or potential candidate who i've seen out of a washington party wearing a gardenia in her ear and be within three points. mitch mcconnell has never been that popular in kentucky. in the state of kentucky, partly because he's from louisville, is not that popular. >> joy reid and howard fineman, thank you both for joining me tonight. >> thank you. >>> coming up, paul krugman joins me he to talk about whatever he wants. >>> and in the rewrite tonight, the england that oscar wild would not recognize. england has gone from throwing oscar wild in jail for a crime of homosexuality to t

or was it harvard? this rove ad suggests quite a few things. mitch mcconnell is concernedaboutashleyjudd. >>he is concerned in general. he is a power here in washington and who i covered back when he was county judge in louisville. he has never been wildly popular in the state. he always had a tough race even when he hasn't had significant opponents and he's on a fault line. kentucky is a red state in presidential elections, mitch is not that popular. what he is afraid of is not ashley judd, but a tea party-style attack along the lines of that. >> he has reason to be concerned. obviously back in 2008 or 2010, rand paul was running in the primaries and mcconnell and the entire kentucky establishment with rand aggressively -- rand paul's machine beat him and wasn't even close. >> it's a very complicated legacy. without mitch mcconnell there would be no thrivingly party in the state of kentucky. one thing he has done is be architect. that made 2010 the rejection of his guy so striking. mitch mcconnell's fingerprints used to be on every race in the state beyond his own. he was always trying to orc

withashleyjuddisnot going to hurt her. that's why they know her name. >> they know that, they're going to hear her out. there's no doubt she has repellant around her that helps deal a blow to the main thing here. the o'connell camp says we're not worried about this at all. not on the numbers but the fact that major republican players here are running ads just shows how worried they already are. >> there's no incumbent in the world who isn't worried when they're at 47 and they are panicked when there's an unannounced challenger at 43. >> yeah. the other part for karl rove is is it good for him to have people like news the media talking about anything but his competence. the competence problem, the wasted money you showed, the low record of victories they have, that's what we should also be talking, about not just a fact that he's got a problem with the tea party. >> hey, since i asked you to like us on facebook, we've actually gotten another thousand likes on facebook. ari, were you are one of those thousands? >> i am preone of those thousands. >> hey, like us on facebook. like as you l